CodeDS/UK/1339
Dates24/03/1901-2000
Person NameBerger; Klaus (24/03/1901-2000)
SurnameBerger
ForenamesKlaus
ActivityArt historian. Assistant at Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (1926-1928); librarian at Stadtbibliotheken Berlin-Lichtenberg and Friedrichshain (1928-1933); visiting instructor and lecturer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; Professor of History of Art at the US-Army University, Biarritz; Assistant of the Monuments and Fine Arts Office of the USA in Bavaria; Assistant Professor, Associated Professor, chairman and Professor of Art History Department of the University of Kansas (1947-1970), synchronously Director of the Spencer Art Museum, Kansas; Fulbright Professor in Cologne (1954); Contributor to the cultural exchange between USA and UdSSR (1962).
RelationshipsSon of Dr. phil. Rudolf Berger (graduate translater, 1866-1935) and Margarete Müller (1876-1967); brother of Götz; husband of Editha Wendt (1899-1937, marriage 1929) and Margaret Robinson (1909-1973); father of Margaretta.
HistoryStudied History of Art, Philosophy, Philology in Munich, Berlin, Heidelberg and Göttingen (1920-1924); doctoral dissertation (1925); emigrated to France (1933), USA (1941); returned to France (1970).
SourceWendland, Ulrike, Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. München: Saur, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 39-42; Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten Kalender, Berlin, 1954; Strauss, Herbert, Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration. München 1980-83; Roussel, Helene, "Bienvenue monsieur Berger! (Interview)",in Exilés en France: Souvenirs d’antifascistes allemands émigrés (1933-1945), Paris: Maspero, 1982; [Carmela Thiele, Klaus Berger: Kunsthistoriker, Bibliothekar und Pädagoge (unpublished ms., 1995)]; obituary as "Deaths: Klaus Berger," in Oread, University of Kansas Newsletter, February 25, 2000 URL: <http://www.oread.ku.edu/Oread00/OreadFeb25/deaths.html> [accessed 16/06/2011]; Seligman, Germain, On Gericault und Sein Werk, Art Bulletin 35 (December 1954), pp. 320-26; Eitner, Lorenz. "Letters to the Editor." Art Bulletin 36 (June 1954), pp 167-8; Seligman, Germain. Art Bulletin 36 (June1954), pp.168-9; URL: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Berger_(Kunsthistoriker)> accessed 16/06/2011.

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